Of course it does, but I doubt it’ll happen. WoW stopped being an rpg a long time ago.
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Thats awful, i didn’t even think about pre SL stuff, thats horrible.
The problem is, though, only certain classes have trouble, and certain people who did elite raiding back in the day aren’t having trouble because they are tricked out in 120+ gear when quests give 90-95 at Lv50-51. They’re the ones telling Blizz (and everybody else) that everything is fine and that we should “git gud”.
My Fury Warrior breezed through it rather comfortably in i100. My Outlaw Rogue, however, has to very carefully take on no more than 2 targets at a time and occasionally needs to plunk her butt on the ground and eat. My Ret Paladin can just mow everything and she was only in 75-80 gear when she started.
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Ilevel scaling has no place in an RPG.
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I think they should reduce ilvl gains to +3 points per season and slow down the ilvl bloat. It’s pretty killer that questing gear is useless upon reaching max level. You can be super strong against other players and only have 3-6 ilvl above them.
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I’m not a fan of level scaling in general, but ilvl scaling is completely ridiculous.
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It’s great we have a game director who consistently signs off on any bad idea that doesn’t hurt hardcore raiders.
Fully agree here, it actually is counterintuitive, you get better gear but the mobs get stronger with you, that kills all feeling of progression regardless of what kind of player you are.
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Old thread, but anyways. That’s the funny part of it. They snuck item level scaling into the game. They never put it in any patch notes. Heck they didn’t finally fess up to it until players finally called them out on it lol.
Blizzard scaling is garbage, back in the short time I played in BFA I dinged max (whatever it was in BARF) and I only needed a couple more mobs to finish out the quest I was on and went to grab the same 3 I was killing with no issues up to that point and they just about one shot my pet, in any halfway descent game you should not level up and be weaker that’s just moronic on a epic scale. (it’s a BS excuse you need to go get better gear to finish out a quest that one level before was cake).
If they did remove it, you better expect them to also remove the ilvl scaling from rewards as well.
Hitting 60 is odd these days for sure.
Yes! I dinged 60. And crap!, now its gear grind time to fight scaling open world even.
60’d a hunter this weekend for horde. Not sure how I didn’t have a 60 hunter for them…but anyway.
3 hours later my gear still sucked. Not looking to spend 100K at the AH limited gear buys. Mainly the 10K ish 200 trinket. I needed that to see the normal dungeons 60 locked. Normal…I don’t even have ilevel for heroic yet.
Did the emissaries up (one an HOA run), the weekly vendor dungeons (both) with no loot.
OPted to spam anima and renown. Since at this point…yeah its looking to be my only gear path in covenant gear. So I will preload that and jsut power charge it up on piece pickup running covenant story this weeek.
Horde pvp odd. Long waits to either roll stomp or be roll stomped. Like that 60’s first BG was WG, on assault. And we won. Hell froze over.
Next WG defence and quick loss. Alliance had skills and lots of healers lol. Walls melted so fast…
Tl;dr…any joy on 60 ding quickly vanished. Scaling says welcome to 60…now get your butt kicked. And gear acquisition ain’t fun. Not asking for welfare gear to fix. I’d take scaling gone or reduced to actually feel heroic on 60 ding. 60 ding makes you feel so…weak.
Finally 60’d a lock sunday too. They haven’t even started any of this. I said screw it…legion time and close out the order hall bits not done. Quest gear and 60 could at last do that bit and clear normal dungeons decent enough.
Wait until you go kill a level 50 rare in BFA and it takes you longer than it did at 40. Fun times.
Oh…fun times. Fun times.
I went back to see about rep fxing to get PF there. That plan died an hour in. Daily rare/elite kill rotations that long…screw that noise. I’d have WoD PF easier to get really.
You could if richer at least buy some rep to save time there. Then it was just go find some treasure lol.
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Honestly, if you want to do pathfinder in BFA now - you need to do most of it before 50 and then lock a toon at 50 to finish it. Otherwise it’s just painful.
What’s going to blow your mind is that you’ve been getting progressively weaker since lvl 10. I can 2 shot bosses in freehold, how about you?
I wish you were on some Freehold pops I had there. 30 to 40 my wod alt I hit sometimes gets this when WoD has no people for dungeons. SO we get passed to freehold. These eat up some time. By some I mean a lot lol.
I 100% agree iv scaling is stupid level scaling while I don’t like it is fine
I agree. No more ilvl scaling. It should be used for current and future expansion zones. Like the broken isles, BfA islands, and the Shadowlands zones, which oddly enough the current expansion doesn’t have that feature.
You have to build your own or add me for a run. I’ve gone as high as 100x the groups combined dps.